What burns me up about the Pixi (sprint)-If you can, help me out here

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This is a half rant half 'I hope someone can help me out here with something I'm doing wrong' post, because my experience with this phone makes me want to smash it into a developers face. (Try not to take offence, it's just a thought, I am actually physically stuck with this phone)
Messaging:
No time stamps for messaging? With my pending civil court case, it'd be nice to have this rudimentary gem that's been on every phone since 1998. But let's be honest...it's just nice to know when what was said. Awesome that I can save every message for 3 months. Blows that I can't figure out when it was sent.
Missed Calls:
OK being that I actually like to think of my pixi as a phone first, then a "computer", I'd love to be able to sift through my missed calls on the red missed call alert bar. Since I'm too much of a, "let's get this done now" guy, I hate loading an app to get to my missed calls off of a little button on an already small interface. If I don't want to load the app, I have to click on the missed call alert bar, make my phone dial the number, end the call immediately, and continue untill I go through all of my missed calls (Yea I've done it before, I hate loading apps that bad). How about if you drag down on the missed call alert bar, it pulls the top one off and reveals the PREVIOUS missed call. (Holy ----! Am I a genius, or am I just someone who actually used this phone for more than 3 minutes?) Hopefully I can just sift through my calls on the messed call's red alert ball, but I've tried it every which way and I don't think I can...Help me out here.
SMS through missed call icon also only works when it wants to (software issue)
Airplane Mode: I accidentally put my phone into Airplane mode like twice a week. This blocks all calls and you just don't even know it's on until you notice the plane on the screen. Why is it so easy? Does palm not realize the consumer base that this phone makes it to probably uses an airplane once every year? I mean I've never even been on a plane and I got suckered into this thing, yet I feel like I should be able to have enough frequent flier miles to go around the world 6 times accoroding to how much I accidentally turn on Airplane Mode. Wth? Whose idea was that?
Facebook syncing: Seriously, who in their right mind wants every single one of heir FB friends on their phones? Certainly not me. Sorry I don't need to talk to all 400 people I've added from school. Best part is, once the syncing deed is done, you can't stop it. That's just brilliant. You spend an hour sycing your phone to FB, just to reset your contacts.
Ringtones: Text messaging ringtones literally plays for about 10 seconds and stop. Who on gods green earth told you that it'd be Ok to play any ringtone for like 10 seconds? Seriously...? PLEASE tell me I can change this. I can't even get through the intro of a song in 10 seconds. That's just great. May I add my ringer just seems to have shut off today. Why and when, I don't know. But my ringer is on, turned up, and I'm just getting text messages and calls as I type this with no sounds. lol Seriously. I'm not even kidding. I don't know how to make the alert sound. That's absurd. lol Like really I'm laughing at how pitiful it is that this is what my phone does so I'll just type another lol to further express how much of a joke this phone is to me. lol
Contact Reminder: Now I'm not sure what I'm doing. But pretty often, when trying to hurriedly dial a number, I accidentally hit contact reminder, load a new app. Meanwhile I have to get rid of the app and get to my phone. Now here's the kicker...I did it "hurriedly"(yea I make up words when I need to) which means I'm in a rush. Thx for not helping whatever situation I'd be in/have been in, Palm...You're supposed to work with me, not against me. :\
Calendar: Awesome app. I actually bought this phone for its uses here. But I'm not sure if it's just me, or the phone, but I can't even have this thing remind me to take out the trash every WEDNESDAY. From what I can tell, I can only do reoccuring reminders by date, and not by day. Seriously? If I'm not missing something here and that is the case, you've completely failed your name Palm. Just saying, I mean jeez...
Youtube: Now really. You almost outdid yourself with the youtube app. You could have made me forget of all of this phones shortcomings had you not just screwed up here too. Now I don't know who you have agreements with, but since I can't actually get the same vids I'd normally get on the computer (for example, music videos) to come up in my search, you've essentially turned youtube, "you"sless. Now that actually takes more effort in screwing up than not. This thing right here just makes me think you're trying to get me mad.
Small keys:Won't even touch on that subject, I should have noticed from the get go. I knew it, thought I'd get used to it, but no. They are just too small and that's that. Not even blaming palm for this one.
Palm taught me 2 things with this phone.
1: Never buy from palm again, we just don't seem to agree on what a phone should do. I had great expectations in the Palm name, only to find out that I'm going to be enraged by the phone daily.
2olidification in the notion that "if it's too good to be true, it probably is." Because that's exactly what I got out of the experience with this phone.
So unless someone can set my problems straight, I'm going to be looking foward to my next upgrade like it's the last day of school for a 12 year old. At least life won't continue speeding by as long as I have this thing. I guess that's one bonus. :\
The worst part is this is all that I can think of sitting here. I can probably edit this throughout any given day to make it into a small book. Which I would try to publish if I'm not flat out wrong about at least half of these "problems". Because if so...this phone should have never hit the market. No offense. Like I said, I actually have to use this phone. Palm just gets more money out of it.
Thx if you read, and thx if you help me out. I hope someone tells me what I'm doing wrong and makes me look like a complete idiot. This is your chance, defend palm!
Post relates to: Pixi p120eww (Sprint)

Answer 1

Hi ChrisBell,
my Pixi shows me the missed calls in a list of its own? I don't have many, so maybe I'm missing something. But I agree with your half-ranting to some degree. As a long-time Palm-user (my last phone was a Treo 680, terrible form factor, good UI), I am really disappointed with the standard software on this phone. Memos and Tasks, which AFAIK were there and useful even on the first Newton's, have regressed beyond the point of usefulness now (solution: Toodledo and Done!, at least for now).
But ChrisBell: if you feel up for it, you could start tinkering. Many people love these phones so much they have started developing patches to solve the obvious problems skimmed over by developers. Try looking up "webosquickinstall" and "preware", and you will find over 300 patches and a lot of free software to help you out. I am not a computer wizard myself, but I am not scared of them either, and I have been able to make good use of all these extras made available by the community.
just a thought, might help you out on a few of your half-rants